inductive reasoning
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Inductive reasoning is a method where you observe many specific examples and use those observations to develop a general rule or principle that explains them. It matters because it's how we often learn patterns from experience and form working theories about how the world works, though conclusions reached this way aren't guaranteed to be true.
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Inductive reasoning refers to a variety of methods of reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but at best with some degree of probability. Unlike deductive reasoning (such as mathematical induction), where the conclusion is certain, given the premises are correct, inductive reasoning produces conclusions that are at best probable, given the premises provided.
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